This article mainly discussed about leadership and creativity from the problem-solving perspective by concerning outcomes from previous studies. The purpose of the article is to develop the individual facts, which is focusing on cognitive processes related to creative outcomes，and to give suggestions of how leaders can enhance the creative problem-solving of their employees. However, there are more complex facts that may affect the creative products in terms of contextual factors; for example, different types of leadership that may affect employee creativity are not fully discussed in this article. Secondly, there are some shortcomings of the research approach by using analytical research method. Next, alternative research method will be suggested in the third part. Therefore, the main purpose of my essay is to demonstrate that there are more factors need to be considered in the process of creative problem-solving and to explain why some other research methods should be used in this focusing topic.
This given article is based on the current research which identified different factors may affect organizational creativity, including both individual and organizational level, the author generally introduced the factors from individual and organizational levels with the models of creativity. Then the author focuses on discussing the individual factors that may influence creative problem-solving. Next, similarities between cognitive processes and creative problem solving are introduced as to come up with the main theme. Specifically, there are four core processes in cognitive process which share the same process of problem solving. While cognitive process in problem solving is an internal fact from employees. The author uses models of ...
... middle of paper ...
...avior and Human Decision Processes, 55, 120-151.
Simonton, D.K.(2000). Creativity: cognitive, developmental, personal, and social aspects. American Psychologist,55,151-158.
Simonton,D.K,(1995). Personality and intellectual predictors of leadership. In D.H. Saklofske and M. Zeidner (eds), International handbook of personality and intelligence. New York: plenutn Press, 739-757.
Tierney, P., Farmer, T.M. and Graen, G.B. (1999), An examination of leadership and employee creativity: the relevance of traits and relationships, Personnel Psychology, Vol. 52, 591-620.
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. Department of sociology,2006. Qualitative and quantitative approaches. [online] Available at: [Accessed 24 November 2011].
Shaughnessy, M. F., & Wakefield, J. F. (2003). Creativity: Assessment. In N. Piotrowski & T. Irons-Georges (Eds.), Magill's encyclopedia of social science:Psychology (pp. 459-463). Pasadena, CA: Salem Press.
In this study 491 twelve-year-old children were asked to complete surveys that would allow researchers to measure variations in creativity. Of these 491 students, 53% were female, 34% were African American, and 66% were Caucasian American. Due to this variation in population researchers were testing they were able to get an ov...
Kirkpatrick, S. A., & Locke, E. A. (2001). Leadership: Do traits Matter? Academy of Management Executive,5,, 48-60.
It is consistently found that personality plays an important role in Leadership and leadership styles. Leaders act and react differently in situations depending on their personality traits. It is also found that when personality affects a leader 's decision-making skills it can also directly affect their success. The Five Factor Model was created, referred to hereafter as FFM, that contains five different personality
Personality is one of the key aspects that must be addressed when considering what type of attribute a leader needs. Personality has two meanings. The first meaning refers to the impression a person makes on others his social reputation. It describes him or her as pushy, honest, outgoing, impulsive, decisive, friendly or independent. From the standpoint of leadership, this view of personality addresses two issues: “What kind of leader or person is this?” and “Is this somebody I would like to work for or be associated
Shaughnessy, M. F., & Wakefield, J. F. (2003). Creativity: Assessment. In N. Piotrowski & T. Irons-Georges (Eds.), Magill's encyclopedia of social science:Psychology (pp. 459-463). Pasadena, CA: Salem Press.
In their article, “The Creativity Crisis”, authors Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman explore the urgency of the downfall in the public’s “creativity quotient.” Bronson and Merryman emphasize the necessity for young children to be imaginative. Through an IBM poll, they verify that with the decrease of creativity in our society comes an array of consequences seen in the work field. The authors remind readers of another reason for the importance of creativity; they argue that creative ideas can solve national matters. Hence, Branson and Merryman believe that original ideas are key for a better world. Though I concede that creativity is a vital key to the solution of many national problems, I still insist that teaching creativity,
Zhou, Q., Hirst, G., & Shipton, H. (2012). Promoting creativity at work: The role of problem-solving demand. Applied Psychology: An International Review, 61(1), 56-80. doi:10.1111/j.1464-0597.2011.00455.x
Innovation has become a critical element for a business to be successful. More emphasis is placed on creativity as it is the core that drives innovation within a company. Businesses must provide a conducive work environment to produce and grow a creativity amongst its employees. We will discuss the five critical component to a creative work environment which include challenging work, organization encouragement, supervisor encouragement, work group encouragement, lack of organization impediments and freedom.
The most important quality that differentiates a leader from other people is the ability to think strategically. Vision is the most important aspect that drives a leader’s strategy. It is all about where you want to be. Other qualities include Decision making, problem solving, time management, self-motivation, emotional intelligence and many more. Once we know the type of leadership, it is easy to find what leadership skills we have and which we need to develop which is explained in the book “Leadership: Theory, application, skill development (5th ed.) by Lussier and Achua.” Also, Keirsey Style Sorter personality type helps to knowing our temperament type, and work on our weakness and to emerge out as a good leader.
Zhang, X, & BARTOL, K., 2010. Linking empowering leadership and employee creativity-The influence of psychological empowerment, intrinsic motivation, and creative process engagement. Academy of Management Journal, 53, 107-128.
An Attempted Synthesis through the Big Five Model of Personality Lens by Stuti Saxena (2014). Saxena (2014) differentiates between leaders who are creative, leaders who are experts, leaders who are transformational, and leaders who possess all of these attributes. According to author, leadership is understood in the context of the Big Five Model of Personality. The Big Five Model of Personality defines leadership in terms of five personality traits: neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness, and conscientiousness (Saxena, 2014). The author identified that the more overlap there was between creative leadership and transformational leadership in the same leader, the more likely it was for followers to perceive the leader as an ideal role model. Saxena (2014) specified that how transformational and creativity traits interact shape how a leader is
Creativity is the ability to join ideas together in a unique way or to make uncommon connections between ideas. Creativity allows individuals to develop different ideas and methods to use when approaching tasks and problems. Most individuals have creative potential, however many do not know how to access it. Creative individuals possess traits that others do not. These traits can include independence, confidence, positive self-evaluation, problem solving skills, and perseverance . These skills have become increasingly important in organizations in today’s Information Age.
Organization operates in a strongly competitive environment manning creativity a vital component in business growth. Creativity is what sparks big ideas, challenges workers way of thinking and make way for new business opportunities,
In order to evaluate creativity, people usually indicate the development of a valuable and useful new product, service, process, or procedure by people working together in a complex social system. One of most popular ways to approach creativity is applying integrated perspective on it. There are three factors having mutual influence on creativity: personal factors, environmental characteristics, and the nature of the task. This perspective focuses particularly on the intrinsic motivation of an individual in a particular context. It means that the willingness of people to do is more concerned than the levels and types of creativity they are capable of. The intrinsic motivation is a part of integrated perspective for involving not only the personal interests and personalities of individuals but also how interesting the problems or tasks are. This approach is very useful for public administration. It indicated that people themselves are potential inside and we can learn skills and knowledge to motivate our creativity and also support to other’s one. In addition, it shows that creativity located in specific context must be appreciated and promoted to operate work or solving problems. Most importantly, it recognized the role of creativity as a component of a larger process of change and